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...some speeds, thinks the NACA, the most efficient airplane may be shaped like an arrowhead. For others, it may have short, broad "stub" wings. They do not stop at "moderate" speeds such as Mach 1.5, but think boldly about speeds two or three times as fast. Obstacles do not discourage them. At Mach 4, they calculate, air friction will heat the leading edge (perhaps the whole body) of an airplane to about 1,200° F. This is red hot, and above the softening point of ordinary structural metals. "But," say the NACA men, "wings can be cooled artificially...
Mount Baldy and the Lake Arrowhead region have long been popular ski spots for Los Angeles greased hickory experts, but even the best of these can't match grades or open slopes with northern California's Lake Tahoe...
...brother, who once proved-to his own satisfaction-that a man could eat on $1.75 a week, left a $278,264 estate but owed more than $37,000 of it. A tax appraisal showed that his Manhattan creditors included the Hotel St. Regis ($101), Monte Carlo nightclub ($46), suburban Arrowhead...
Dorothy Lamour and her husband, Army Air Forces Captain William Ross Howard III, entered their cottage at Arrowhead Springs Hotel, heard a rustle in the wastebasket, investigated. Announced Captain Howard: "It's a cat." He overturned the basket, said: "Scat!" The skunk scatted. So did the Howards...
Died. Benjamin Crawford ("Ben") Riley, 73, famed restaurateur; of suffocation, in a fire at his Yonkers, N.Y. Arrowhead Inn. Riley opened his first Arrowhead Inn in 1897 at Saratoga (where his innkeeping great-great-grandfather had been given a grant by George III), reportedly introduced frogs' legs to the U.S., numbered among his friends "Diamond Jim" Brady...